Re: [BackupPC-users] Newbie -- tarextract errors (WinXX)

[Craig B. <cba...@us...>]

jse...@co... writes:

> I have installed Backuppc (which rocks!!!) and I have one issue
> that I can't seem to figure out.  I'm backing up my wife's WinXP /
> My Documents folder.  After it was done the log file looked fine
> until the end (last 1/16th or so of the file) where tarExtract had
> all these wierd characters.  I'm wondering if it's the size of the
> files (it occurs in the My Videos folder).
>
> Things to note:
> 1.  My linux box using rsync worked flawlesly.
> 2.  I added "My Videos" to the Conf{$Exclude} files and re ran a full backup expecting to see it go away but it didn't.
> 3.  I added the spaces between the tarExtract lines for readability.
> 
> pool     644       0/0      164870 My Pictures/wooten_map.bmp
> pool     644       0/0      612741 My Pictures/ZbThumbnail.info
> create d 755       0/0           0 My Videos
> pool     644       0/0  7401035780 My Videos/BalletRecital_SoccerGame5.mpg
> tarExtract: cB8U????P??0????L??DK?&#65533;??????%????t=dr<}????@=xq?&#65533;o,ff
??yB.i??@<????c2tq:??D??
> 
> tarExtract: Unable to open /home/backuppc/data/pc/staceycomputer/new/fMy Documents/fv??B?&#65533;????????/attrib for writing

It is likely that the 7GB file is not being backed up correctly.
In fact, is 7GB the correct size?

Which version of smbclient are you using?  Prior to 3.0, smbclient
only works up to 2GB files.  I'm not sure what the limit is in 3.0.x,
but it might be 4GB depending upon how it is built.

For smbclient only a single exclude can be specified.  Do you have
multiple excludes?  There is a patch to fix this.

Also, some people have noted that you might need to do this

    $Conf{$Exclude} = 'My Videos/*'

to work correctly with smbclient.

Also, you could use rsync instead of smbclient on the WinXX PC.

Craig